Portsmouth city council

Virginia Beach School Board incumbents

Voters gave a stamp of approval to the School Board, sending all five incumbents back into office by large margins.

Voters

Voters turned out in droves on Tuesday to participate in state and local elections, according to date from the state board of elections.

Virginia Beach registrar Donna Patterson said the midterm election "will definitely set records." And she was right.

Who lost

Mark Whitaker

Whitaker, who was ineligible to serve on the Portsmouth City Council because of recent felony convictions on three forgery counts, was still on Tuesday's ballot. Despite a campaign to force a special election and run for the seat after getting his voting rights restored, Whitaker failed to win one of the three at-large positions.

Rep. Scott Taylor

After a campaign filled with controversy, including Taylor's campaign staff's involvement in collecting false signatures on petitions for independent congressional candidate Shaun Brown, the one-term congressman from Virginia's 2nd Congressional District was defeated by Democratic challenger Elaine Luria.

Corey Stewart

Stewart waged a Trump-style attack campaign but was ignored by the White House and national Republicans and lost to Sen. Tim Kaine.

Other Races

Virginia Beach City Council

Three races were extremely tight, coming down to a few hundred votes. The lone incumbent to lose, John Uhrin in the Beach district, was beaten by a margin of just 156 votes, according to unofficial results from the city's registrar.

The body will grow more diverse, with two African Americans – Aaron Rouse and Sabrina Wooten – joining the 11-member group.

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